On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:48 +0200, Richmond wrote: > On 12/15/2010 10:37 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Richmond wrote: > > > >> On 12/15/2010 10:05 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >>> As a Lancastrian who lived near Oxford (a stronghold of Morris > >>> dancing) now living in California and playing in a Celtic music > band > >>> with a bagpiper and a guest vocalist who plays accordion, I THINK > I > >>> just got served! > >>> > >> > >> As a Scot, I've always wondered what the word 'Celtic' > means . . . :) > >> > >> Potential definitions include " a romantic miasma created by > >> opium-addled Victorians living in > >> London and successfully fooled by George McDonald." > > > > That's exactly right! > > Mind you; both Lancastrians and East Coast Scots can smirk in an > unpleasantly superior > way at Australians . . . :) > > >> > >>> Pete Haworth > >>> > >>> On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 12/15/2010 09:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >>>>> You have to set your localization to "strine" for the first to > >>>>> work. It's "pommey" for the bagpipe, and I don't think they > have > >>>>> implemented Polish localization yet, so no go for the accordion. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Pommies don't play bagpipes; unless, of course, you class > >>>> Northumbrians as pommies. > >>>> > >>>> Although, you'd be hard put to grow an apple as far north as the > >>>> Pennines. > >>>> > >>>> Pommies, when they are trying hard to prove they have an > >>>> identifiable culture, perform > >>>> Morris dances. > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>
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